James Barrett

James Barrett (31 July 1710-11 April 1779) was a colonel of the United States during the American Revolutionary War. He represented his hometown of Concord in the Massachusetts legislature, and was the general in command of the American patriots in the Battle of Barrett's Farm.

Biography
James Barrett was born on 31 July 1710 in Concord, Massachusetts, in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. He became a town representative in the Boston legislature and lent his farm to the colonial militia as a gunpowder depot during the American Revolution. In April 1775, he was made a Colonel of the militia and he held off a British attack on his farm, known as "the Battle of Barrett's Farm". He died in 1779 at the age of 69.